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Polygamy on the Pedernales Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas 1845-1858 / Melvin C. Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Melvin C., 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wight, Lyman.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Texas--History.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Texas--Church history.
- Texas.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- Utah State University, University Libraries 2006
- Logan, UT : Utah State University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In the wake of Joseph Smith Jr.'s murder in 1844, his following splintered, and some allied themselves with a maverick Mormon apostle, Lyman Wight. Sometimes called the ""Wild Ram of Texas,"" Wight took his splinter group to frontier Texas, a destination to which Smith, before his murder, had considered moving his followers, who were increasingly unwelcome in the Midwest. He had instructed Wight to take a small band of church members from Wisconsin to establish a Texas colony that would prepare the ground for a mass migration of the membership. Having received these orders directly from Smi--
- Contents:
- Militant Mormonism on the American frontier
- The wild ram strays from the fold
- Gone to Texas
- Frontier Mormonism in the Texas hill country
- Bishop George Miller and zodiac : 1848-1849
- Cutting the wild ram from the flock
- Independent Mormonism in antebellum Texas
- Polygamy and a temple on the pedernales
- The Mormon Millers of Hamilton Valley
- The Mormon cowboys of Bandera County
- The way of all flesh.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-223) and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613283467
- 9781283283465
- 1283283468
- 9780874215328
- 0874215323
- OCLC:
- 476107751
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